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Commercial Trucks

by State Library of NSW

Photographs of commercial trucks some with advertising

28 photos · 2.8K views

Daimler YC-type water flusher tanker, Parramatta Council, Sydney, ca. 1926

Kellogg's van for A.H. Peters & Co. at Sydney University / Milton Kent

Minties van of H.Bear near the Conservatorium / W.A. Webber

Loading tin drums into van of J.Gadsden Pty Ltd / Milton Kent

Enmore Theatre lorry - free Christmas cake to each child, Sat. matinee 24 Dec 1938 / by Sam Hood

Motor bus being towed to Queensland, 1929 Cadillac towtruck, Sydney, 1 December 1938 / Sam Hood

Three-wheel tractor of Australian Glass Manufacturers with trailer, c. 1930s, probably by Sam Hood

Australian National Airways Freighter Service van, 1946 model / ANA Publicity Dept

Allen's Irish Moss gum jubes delivery van / W.A. Webber

Steelo [soappads] and Queen Bees Wax van / James Howarth Studios for A.H. Peters & Co

Remington accounting machines van of Stott & Hoare & Chartres Ltd, Reington House, Liverpool Streett by G.H. Olding, photographed in the Botanic Gardens

Dairy Farmers van no.98 at Wentworth Park / James Howarth Studios for A.H. Peters & Co.

Frank (Sonny) Duncan's travelling cafe. His catchcry at Cobar Football games was "Try our home made pies - warm your belly for threepence" - Cobar, NSW, c. 1935, by Mrs Les Condon

A.B.C. truck recording soldiers off to war, Darling Harbour, May 1940

Civic Theatre queue (taken for Columbia Pictures Ltd) with Aeroplane Jelly advertising vans, 21/5/1938, by Sam Hood

University of Sydney Commem Day procession, Old Medical School, 5 May 1965 / photographer Jack Hickson, Australian Photographic Agency

Arnotts' Biscuits Albion van, Sydney, ca. 1935-1940 / photographer Milton Kent

Five firemen, Metropolitan Fire Brigade engine and crew, Castlereagh Street headquarters, [pre-1955] / photograph Sutcliffe Pty Ltd

Rosella delivery truck, Australia, ca. 1930, Peter Anderson Collection

Shell streamlined petrol tanker, ca. 1935, Milton Kent, gelatin silver print

Sun Tiy Sang, gardener, Burgess Street, Kogarah, truck with Sam Wright body, ca. 1925

Cyclist Hubert Opperman poses next to an REO Speed Wagon truck advertising at Peters Ice Cream Factory, Redfern (taken for Bruce Small Ltd), Australia, 19 July 1938

Dunlop Perdriau's Triumph delivery van

Firemen and fire engine at brigade headquarters, Sydney, 17 March, 1941

Newcastle County Council electricity supply truck with ladder and body by Oldin, ca. 1940